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Mantra is with you for your whole life

A spiritual discourse on life's two paths, illustrated through a parable about marriage and communication.

"You know very well... And there are two paths." "Spiritual human life is everything. This is what it is, and for that we are thinking."

The speaker presents two life paths: a worldly, professional path and a spiritual path centered on relationships and conscious living. He emphasizes the spiritual path through a lengthy parable about a married couple whose 50-year resentment stems from miscommunication over sharing bread, illustrating how small, unspoken issues can define a life. The talk concludes with the imparting of a lifelong mantra and instructions for a disciplined lifestyle, including vegetarianism.

Filming location: Salzburg, Austria

You know very well. You have studied extensively. Your parents are excellent, your school is excellent. You are from this land, you are happy, you have everything. And there are two paths. One path is the way we are going in one direction, like in Europe or elsewhere. It is the path of doctors, medicine, progressing further in that way. They will continue on that path for many years, where there are more doctors and so on. It is very good; many are practicing it. Then, there is another path. This path concerns medicine, our life, our medicines, and the way we live with many things. These words I teach define our way. For example, when going to our parents, we bring something to eat. What kind of eating are we doing? What are the good things? Where are you going? Where are we doing this or that? That is spiritual. This is spirituality. That is the other way. But I give the same value to both ways, because sound and everything is within. Yet, whenever we are on that first path, at the end, there is no life or meditation—it is finished for humans. Everything is very good, all of this... but there is nothing there. Spiritual human life is everything. This is what it is, and for that we are thinking. And yes, we think: this is my mother, my child. My child, I want them to have a very happy and good life and to give them schools. The father is also very happy and very good for the children. We don't think of both husband and wife separately, but of the son, the children. So God has given us, and we got the child. How is this everything? But when we get a child—when you have a child now—before, when you were young, you said, "We will marry." We became very much, and when we married, you know, we were all living. But now, only about 50 years, people have all gone wrong, giving up. Otherwise, you know, everywhere in this country and every country, when there is marriage, then husband and wife live very well everywhere. But sometimes, if there is a little problem, they will act. Then they say, "I will go out." That is not right. And then there is a little child, already one year or two years or five years old. And suddenly, the wife wants to go out, or she goes out. Where is this? Now the child is here. So this little child, for 10 years, 20 years... they said, "My mother, my father..." The children are walking, this side with the son and this side with the mother, and the child is in between. So now it means you are not thinking of something else, but you are thinking of your children. We wanted to have children, and we are giving help. This is... but now... There was a little school near the street, with little girls and boys. We were going to schools, coming and going, and playing. They wanted to be like, "If we are friends, then we may be together." They said, "Yes, yes." One boy was so happy and so good that he wanted to give everything to this girl, because he liked to have her as his good friend, and she felt the same. Now, there are very little things, but little things can always be like this. He was going quickly and bringing bread and other things. The bread was plentiful, so what the boy did was cut it for himself and give it to this girl. Every day, nicely, he was cutting everything and then giving it. She said, "I want to have bread first." Very nice, but she was giving him not only the middle part? She didn't say, "Please, can you give me one day?" And he didn't say. Heard that? "Can I give you the soft part?" But the other one, the boy was very good, and he strove for her, and she was very good. But she replied, though she didn't want to die slowly, slowly. Every time this boy brought the bread, he cut it, these two sides. And he gave her the very soft and very nice part, and she, little thinking, not thinking well... they married. And they were married, and they were eating. Again, the boy, now husband, was eating everything for himself, and for his wife, everything, this and that. About one month, two months, three months, four months... then she, this girl, became, how to say, not good. So she doesn't speak anymore. When he comes, she says, "Hello, hello, eating," and slowly, slowly, she doesn't speak two words. She's a woman, husband, and husband cannot... and slowly, slowly, whole life. Then it was 50 years, 50 years. So the husband said, "Darling, can we go one day to a hotel or somewhere? Something is outside somewhere. Can we go?" She said, "Okay." And he went to the restaurant, no? And they said, "We have our 50 years." So, "Both of us are sitting here, can you make a very nice food and give us this?" She said, "How is this?" And can she said always? Because she said, "What can be nothing?" She said, "My life is gone, and I don't want to tell you," and she... "Don't tell me, and I don't. So he's giving me food or anything? Yes, but I'm looking at this and this." So they told that they will cook something, this and this and this. And then he said, "What? What is that? Can you tell me something?" She said, "You don't for..." Me, she said, "Please, can we?" She said, "In my whole life, so then tell me, please, I will give everything." So she said, "I, bread, whole life you gave me in the middle way, not the best one." He said, "What? Because bread is for the middle way, first." And he said, "Yes, darling, I was thinking my whole life that she did not tell me, to give me this hard one and give me the soft one." And he said, she said, "I want to have soft, but not this, like this." Then, husband, husband and a girl, there they are. So what she said, what he said, please, like this. Yes, yes. "Why did you not, why didn't you tell me?" They didn't, but they said, "My dear, it is." Now, I am so happy that I had bird, bird, and this board. This, then he called from the hotel persons, yeah. He said, "Please, can you say what? We are going to marriage today." Yeah, today was eating, not this and this. But now we are married, because my wife will eat this bread first, and then, according to that, so what should we do? What to do? We marry now, and we will go some other place somewhere, and one month, some month or something, we go in the country, my darling, hey my darling, so good everybody, just for this bread, yes, for these little things that it is, yes, so we said no, they said not this, that is, yes, last this, and then, and now, they said we are now new, and we are now married. Whole life in the school when we were, I was help for you to give good things and bird side, I took it. This, this... this. Fifty years. And so, what is them? You have now a program. And you will live now, meditation, mantra, your own mantra. And so, in this mantra, what you are saying will go. "I was always following this, I was this, I was this. But now, my God, I know I will take all this peace. Not eat meat, and not meet it, and this. I will be like everybody. Again, we eat like this, good." Then, is this your mantra? Otherwise, this mantra, how is it? I will give it. Everything with me, that mantra, once you are telling me, then it will be your whole life. It will come with you all the time. You don't even know, and in that part, I can... so that you can come here. Thank you. And you come here, you go there, please. Yeah, you go, you go there. Sit down there. Go back, go back,... go back. Yeah, yeah... Because you were hard, you did not sit comfortably, you know? Yeah, so that I make you like this. If, yeah, so you sit also comfortable, okay? You can, you like to sit like this or like this, all comfortable, okay. All right, so braid, always think of the braid, yeah. So this is that, your side in that. So I give you now, made this mantra, and this mantra is everything. It will go in your life forever. Even you will leave it, but that will not go. It will be. Always with you, but that no meat and no, this alcohol. Alcohol, if you take a little bit, well, it may be sometimes, but alcohol is, or this, what is, we call it, is only for the doctors for medicine or something, yes, and no, we. Are they cutting and eating animals? No, they cut them, they cut them. This is a life. Every animal is like this. They will be. They burn this and this, everything. But it is that jīva jīva bhakṣate. Jīva jīva bhakṣate. Jīvā means all creatures, all creatures who are only up in water, waters, all creatures. But then God has made again, again this, and that is the what, what? Sant, bhakta, mayan, man’s man, so man, manusia, manusia. This is a manuṣya, and the other is that others are that. So in this, though if you are there, then when you are very good, their child and everything, pitiful, very good, then you will go after that to whatever god or anything. Others, that you are cooking and eating, and eating this, you are a human. You look, but you will go again back to the other side. So this is that: one and one, they are two. One will go up, and the other will go again, go back. This is, there are two things. If you want to give, then really this is a very, very good, I am telling you. The other is that you can, Swāmījī, please can you tell me, and I will be, and I will think, okay, I will tell you. But if to life, life of the life, life of the life, Jīva, Jīva Bhakṣati, or Manuṣya, that is the Goddess, God. That’s all.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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